A bizarre international mystery unfolded when a supposed Russian underwater hockey team failed to appear for a championship match, sparking confusion, media attention, and questions about whether the team ever truly existed.

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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/archive/underwater-hockey-team-a-no-show

https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/128nn0p/underwater_hockey_a_100_legit_and_totally_not

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2840543.stm 

https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/2003/06/15/underwater-hockey-team-turns-out/50416360007/

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It’s been far too long since we’ve had a listener stories episode! Enjoy.

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It starts with a map. Then it’s the buildings. Then it’s the windows. And at a certain point, it stops being about what’s true—and starts being about what feels like it could be. This episode is more about how a conspiracy theory becomes a thing.

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https://www.davidrumsey.com/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/general-maps/
https://www.raremaps.com/

https://www.britannica.com/art/Beaux-Arts-architecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
https://undergroundtour.com/about/history.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Manhattan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_fort
https://www.britannica.com/technology/fortification

https://www.history.com/news/orphan-trains-child-migration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_flood_conspiracy_theory

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternativeHistory/

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Arlis Perry went for a late-night walk on Stanford’s campus and ended up inside a place that should have been safe. What was discovered the next morning would haunt investigators—and remain unsolved—for over four decades.

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Sources:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Arlis_Perry

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/arlis-perry-murder-stanford.html

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stanford-church-murder-solved-20180629-story.html

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Stanford-church-murder-of-Arlis-Perry-solved-13032118.php

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/28/sheriff-to-announce-break-in-1974-stanford-church-murder-case/

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/cold-case-arlis-perry-stanford-church-murder/199211/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arlis-perry-murder-stanford-church-cold-case-solved-stephen-crawford/

https://abc7news.com/arlis-perry-murder-stanford-memorial-church-cold-case/3692844/

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/arlis-perry-stanford-memorial-church-murder-13032037.php

https://people.com/crime/arlis-perry-stanford-church-murder-solved/

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/arlis-perry-cold-case-solved-after-44-years/

https://www.santaclaracounty.gov/newsroom/Pages/06-28-18A.aspx

https://law.stanford.edu/2018/07/02/the-murder-of-arlis-perry-and-the-lessons-of-cold-case-justice/

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/06/29/after-44-years-suspect-identified-in-stanford-church-killing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/29/dna-evidence-solves-44-year-old-murder-of-woman-found-in-stanford-church/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dna-evidence-solves-1974-murder-arlis-perry-stanford-church-n887716

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/Pages/arlis-perry.aspx

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Toby Dorr was a rule follower. Until she met a man who made her change her ways.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/toby-dorrs-great-escape/615487/

https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-prison-program-director-fell-in-love-inmate-broke-out-2022-9

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/a-trip-to-remember-woman-reflects-on-huge-2006-police-chase-to-knoxville-after-breaking-man-out-of-prison/51-eecc36bd-acf3-4509-994e-3808ef361492

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/toby-dorr-toby-young-who-helped-inmate-john-maynard-escape-max-prison-in-dog-crate-tells-story

https://www.corrections1.com/escapes/inmate-who-escaped-from-kan-prison-in-dog-crate-dies-while-incarcerated

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/37838227/prison-escape-volunteer-fell-inmate-dog-crate/\

https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/john-manard-notorious-kansas-prison-escapee-died-sunday-in-arizona-prison 

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Imagine being so convinced a lost city exists… that you walk straight into the Amazon to prove it. That’s exactly what Percy Fawcett did—and no one ever saw him again.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Fawcett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_City_of_Z
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript_512

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-lost-city-of-z-15468171/

https://www.history.com/news/percy-fawcett-lost-city-of-z-amazon

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/percy-fawcett-0011373

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/movies/the-lost-city-of-z-review.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air/

https://www.livescience.com/amazon-civilization-lidar-discovery.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Percy-Fawcett

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3398625-the-lost-city-of-z

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On New Year’s Eve 1997, Ben Smart and Olivia Hope boarded a yacht in New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds after missing their ride back to shore. By morning, they had vanished—launching one of the country’s most debated murder cases.

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Dorothy Kilgallen was an American journalist and TV personality who was investigating the assassination of JFK when she reportedly died of an accidental drug overdose. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Kilgallen

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Kilgallen

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix5.html

https://time.com/archive/6813826/reporters-50000-word-leak/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/dorothy-kilgallen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_conspiracy_theories

https://youtu.be/VYDaqto22NY?si=-ynfi0nYb0M6NCv4

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In 1969, University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer was found murdered in a cemetery in Denton Township after responding to a ride-share ad home for spring break. 

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Have you heard of Lavinia Fisher, America’s first female serial killer? Maybe we need to pay a little more attention to her story before we start throwing titles around.

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Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/lavinia-fisher

https://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/fisher-lavinia.htm#google_vignette

https://chstoday.6amcity.com/lavinia-fisher-charleston-sc

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